Curator and researcher, Diane Lima She holds a Master's degree in Communication and Semiotics from PUC-SP and is a Pre-doctoral Mellon Fellow, affiliated with the Critical Racial Anti-Colonial Study Co-Lab (CRACS Co-Lab) in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese Languages and Literatures at New York University. She was recently announced as the curator of the Brazilian Pavilion at [event name - likely a university event]. 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di VeneziaHis previous exhibitions include choreographies of the impossible – 35th São Paulo Biennial (2023) Paulo Nazareth: Luzia at the Tamayo Museum, in Mexico City (2024), the river is a serpent – 3rd Frestas Triennial of Arts at SESC São Paulo (2020/2021), and the two-year program Missing Dialogues at Itaú Cultural (São Paulo, 2016-2017), which played a historic role in the anti-colonial turn of Brazilian contemporary art.
In 2025, Lima was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of documenta and Museum Fridericianum gGmbH in Germany, where she serves as vice-president. Between 2024 and 2025, she was Programming Director of the ESAP Fellowship 2025 – an initiative led by the A&L Berg Foundation to promote the professional development of Latinex curators in the United States.
In 2024, Lima was a visiting professor at the Institute of Aesthetic Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Diane Lima edited the acclaimed anthology Black People in the Pool: Contemporary Art, Curatorship, and Education (Phosphorus, 2024), which documents the last ten years of debates on race and art in Brazil. He also co-edited the volume Textes à lire à voix haute (Texts for reading aloud), which brought together anti-colonial dissident voices in Lusophone and Francophone contexts (Brook, 2022). She is also one of the winners of the 2021 Ford Foundation Global Fellowship, a program that celebrates the new generation of global leaders in social justice.